I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
JAMES GEARY Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and...
JAMES GEARY Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
JAMES GEARY The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
JAMES GEARY Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
JAMES GEARY There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible t...
JAMES GEARY Hopefully it won't be much more expensive for tourists. But we're trying to accommodate -- I call it...
BILL GEARY This clears away the last legal hurdle for us to proceed.
BILL GEARY We'll finally have a new Boardwalk that everybody can be proud of.
BILL GEARY The city's not stealing property. It's paying top dollar for the property on the Boardwalk.
BILL GEARY We lost our top runner and had to move Travis Thompson from wingback to tailback. And we were going ...
LOU GEARY I was unaware of that, sir.
PETER GEARY We understand from the vet onboard the salvage vessel that the whale suffered a series of convulsion...
KATY GEARY We understand from the vet onboard the salvage vessel that the whale suffered a series of convulsion...
KATY GEARY Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continu...
ANTHONY GEARY The completely improper and inappropriate review conducted, which involved unprecedented and unabash...
NOAH GEARY I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime ficti...
ANTHONY GEARY I'm not even sure why I got that one.
GEARY CLAXTON I felt that I didn't need to go to prep school, and I didn't feel like doing another year of school,...
GEARY CLAXTON You gotta use your body in this game. I just try to take advantage of everything I can.
GEARY CLAXTON If you've got that energy, you can do anything, basically. We're just going to try to do that from h...
GEARY CLAXTON I've been feeding off it.
GEARY CLAXTON Tonight I was into it. I've been getting into it, trying to hype up the team.
GEARY CLAXTON I never would have predicted this.
GEARY CLAXTON It's a rough league. You have to keep your heads in it and just play your game. We have to work as a...
GEARY CLAXTON We're looking forward to Ohio State and these next few days we're going to have to just work hard in...
GEARY CLAXTON Since it will take 9 to 12 months for the improvements to be made, we felt it would be unfair to mak...
GEARY ROBINSON One of our utmost concerns is making sure that any parking structure we design will blend in with th...
GEARY ROBINSON The fee will help us to do what everyone wants: improve parking and transit.
GEARY ROBINSON The reality of the equation is this is that we can't just hope that when debt service falls off that...
JASON GEARY There seem to be only two discussions happening, and that's one close the convention center or be sa...
JASON GEARY The amount they're looking for is over $300 million plus punitive damages.
JASON GEARY That was probably the best match of his career. He was working that ring to perfection. It's a perfe...
LOU GEARY But in the end, the one that stood by their word was Appalachian State. I think he's going to make a...
LOU GEARY Only one of them is a junior. It doesn't matter who you put in the backfield. You've got to have som...
LOU GEARY Holding them to a 7-0 halftime lead was huge. But we just couldn't get anything going offensively.
LOU GEARY He was unbelievable. He can check off. He checked off running that quarterback sneak. That was all h...
LOU GEARY We work on special teams a lot. I get a little grief from some coaches thinking we work on it a litt...
LOU GEARY We're already faster than we were at this same point of last year's season. It will only make Patrio...
LIZ GEARY It was tough coming off of a meet two days before that, but everyone's attitude was just so positive...
LIZ GEARY We understand from the vet onboard the salvage vessel that the whale suffered a series of convulsion...
KATY GEARY This lady had no intent to harm anyone, or put anyone in any kind of fear. She's under a lot of dure...
NOAH GEARY The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
JOHN WHITE GEARY Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l...
LEBRON JAMES But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ...
LEBRON JAMES There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w...
LEBRON JAMES Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h...
LEBRON JAMES Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LEBRON JAMES When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
LEBRON JAMES I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LEBRON JAMES I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
LEBRON JAMES Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ...
JAMES TAYLOR I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LEBRON JAMES I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up...
JAMES ALTUCHER The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes...
JAMES MCBRIDE The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
JAMES MCBRIDE In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk...
JAMES TURRELL In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John M...
JAMES WOLCOTT I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th...
THEO JAMES The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of whic...
JAMES BLACK 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON